Roland-Garros: Kvitova advances to second round

Czech Petra Kvitova won against Hungarian Anna Bondar 7-6 [7], 6-1 to reach the second round of the French Open at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris on Monday.

“She was playing aggressive and she served very well, which I didn’t from the beginning”, said Kvitova after the match.

“But then she broke me and I found a way somehow back. I played great tiebreak and so this was really helpful for me to win the first set and turn it around from 5-2 down. So definitely it was a good one. Then I was just playing a little bit more freer and it was just better.”

Kvitova, ranked No 34 and seed No32, will play Australian Daria Saville next.

Roland-Garros (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Stade Roland-Garros, clay, EUR 43.600.000, most recent results first):

• Daria Saville beat Valentini Grammatikopoulou: 6-1, 6-2
• Andrea Petkovic beat Oceane Dodin: 6-4, 6-2
• Victoria Azarenka beat Ana Bogdan: monday
• Amanda Anisimova beat Naomi Osaka: 7-5, 6-4
• Bianca Andreescu beat Ysaline Bonaventure: monday
• Martina Trevisan beat Harriet Dart: 6-0, 6-2
• Qinwen Zheng beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-3, 6-1
• Marie Bouzkova beat Anastasia Gasanova: 6-2, 6-1
• Leylah Fernandez beat Kristina Mladenovic: 6-0, 7-5
• Donna Vekic beat Mirjam Bjorklund: 7-6 [6], 6-2
• Belinda Bencic beat Reka-Luca Jani: 6-1, 6-1
• Cori Coco Gauff beat Rebecca Marino: 7-5, 6-0
• Elise Mertens beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse: 6-3, 6-1
• Maria Sakkari beat Clara Burel: 6-2, 6-3
• Alison Van Uytvanck beat Ann Li: 3-6, 2-3 ab.
• Varvara Gracheva beat Astra Sharma: 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Olga Danilovic beat Dalma Galfi: 3-6, 7-6 [4], 6-2
• Jil Teichmann beat Bernarda Pera: 6-2, 6-1
• Katerina Siniakova beat Petra Martic: 6-4, 7-6 [6]
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Xinyu Wang: 6-4, 6-1
• Kaia Kanepi beat Garbine Muguruza: 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Karolina Muchova beat Carole Monnet: 6-3, 6-3
• Maria Camila Osorio Serrano beat Harmony Tan: 6-4, 6-3
• Sloane Stephens beat Jule Niemeier: 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
• Sorana Cirstea beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-3, 1-6, 6-2
• Magda Linette beat Ons Jabeur: 3-6, 7-6 [4], 7-5